I've the window open, on this nice spring day (at last). I was startled, just now, to hear the bell of the Presbyterian church, ringing repeatedly at noon today. Just found out it is in remembrance of the dead at Virginia Tech--There was a national call for Friday to be a day of remembrance. Traffic did not stop, no one paused on the street below me, it was only just me, listening to the strangely timid church bell, standing at the open window, saying a prayer--and hoping it's enough. I must give the bell ringer credit, for getting it right.
I lived in one town, once, where a similar thing was done for a different national tragedy, and the bell was peeled with gusto, like for Sunday service, and that just seemed...not quite right, to me.
IN THE NEWS HEREABOUTS:
The state senate of Vermont voted to impeach Bush and Cheney! Hoo-ray for the great state of Vermont! It was approved 16-9 without debate--with every republican and three democrats against it.
The resolution says Bush and Cheney's actions in the U.S. and abroad, including in Iraq, "raise serious questions of constitutionality, statutory legality, and abuse of the public trust."
Also included was a demand for immediate troop withdrawl.
